Agenda item

CQC ACTION PLAN UPDATE

To receive the latest CQC action plan from the Corporate Director of Children, Families and Wellbeing.

Minutes:

The Corporate Director informed the Board that there would be an update of the full action plan at the next meeting. The Director of Integrated Services for Trafford Council and Pennine Care Informed the Board of the scale of the problem of delayed transfers of care in Trafford.  She then delivered a presentation to the Board on the progress which had been made within Trafford with a focus upon the implementation of the Urgent Care Control Room (UCCR).

 

The Director of Integrated Services told the Board that the UCCR was allowing Trafford residents to leave hospital to go home or into the community before having to make long term decisions about their future. The Board were informed of how services have been redesigned in order to reduce the amount of time it took for an individual to step down from hospital into community services. The impact of these services had been an increase in the number of people returning to their own homes and a decrease in people going into residential care.

 

The UCCR was based at the Meadway Care Centre which also housed all of the teams related to urgent care. The Director of Integrated Services described how the UCCR had a screen which displayed in real time the services within Trafford that were being used. The team used this screen to monitor and control the flow of patients through community services and were in constant communication with care home and home care providers to manage demand. In addition to services the UCCR also tracked all of the resources related to urgent care within Trafford so that they were aware when equipment would become available to be used by other service users. The UCCR was already reducing the amount of homecare commissioned and had changed many of the historic issues within the system such as making it easier to sign up to a GP on a short term basis and enabling discharges during public holidays.

 

The Director of integrated services informed the Board that changes had also been made to the funding pathways streamlining the awarding of funding which ensured there were no delays due to a lack of funding. In addition, the way in which teams responded to people’s issues had been changed to ensure that people were on the correct pathway. The Director of integrated services then described both the Stabilise and Make Safe (SAMS) service and the Discharge to Assess Beds service.

 

The presentation finished by showing the Board the impact that all of the changes that had been made had on the level of delayed discharges. The improvement in performance had enabled the emphasis of discussions to move away from just coping with delays towards pre-planning discharges. The next stage was to move towards the prevention of delays through the reduction of admissions. The Director of Integrated Services then read out a letter of thanks from a patient who had been successfully reabled and who had been able to return home.

 

The Chairman of the Trafford Safeguarding Board asked whether issues that were affecting other areas would impact on Trafford. The Director of Integrated services responded that the work which had been done with Wythenshawe Hospital was a collective approach involving the other areas that used the hospital. The Director of Integrated services further stated that this did not include the development of the UCCR and that many other areas had visited to look at it and how they could implement something similar.

 

The Chairman asked about arranging a visit for Board Members. The Director of Integrated Services said that a schedule of possible visits would be put together and sent to Board Members.

 

RESOLVED:

1)    That the update be noted.

2)    That a schedule of possible meeting dates be drawn up and shared with Board Members.

 

 

 

 

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